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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 3.11-rc4
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 20:57:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130805185712.GA12225@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFzWcOXfiJGzF1sVgZFaM_hRSF25P2kC2Ga_b0177jfjYA@mail.gmail.com>

On 08/05, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Heh. I pulled wine-git.
> >
> > set_thread_context() does a lot of PTRACE_POKEUSER requests and then
> > it calls resume_after_ptrace() which simply does PTRACE_DETACH.
> >
> > I'll recheck tomorrow, but it really looks as if it _wants_ to leak
> > the debug registers after detach. And more, it does PTRACE_ATTACH
> > only to set these regs.
> >
> > And this is exactly what fab840f tries to prevent.
>
> Ok, so I guess it's effectively the ABI, and we should just make the
> rule be that "if you don't want stale breakpoints, then remove the
> breakpoints when you detach".

I'm afraid yes.

> And thus reverting it the right thing to do. Agreed?

Yes, yes, sure. I'll write the changelog and send git-revert tomorrow,
unless you do it yourself.

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-05 19:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-04 21:09 Linux 3.11-rc4 Linus Torvalds
2013-08-05  2:34 ` O_TMPFILE fs corruption (Re: Linux 3.11-rc4) Andy Lutomirski
2013-08-05  3:45   ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-05  4:45     ` Andrew Lutomirski
2013-08-05  8:26     ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-08-05 16:04       ` Jörn Engel
2013-08-05 14:31     ` Al Viro
2013-08-05  4:20 ` Linux 3.11-rc4 Felipe Contreras
2013-08-05 13:29   ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-08-05 14:27     ` Felipe Contreras
2013-08-05 14:39       ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-08-05 17:02         ` Felipe Contreras
2013-08-05 17:11           ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-08-05 17:40             ` Felipe Contreras
2013-08-05 17:56               ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-08-05 17:39     ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-05 17:43       ` Felipe Contreras
2013-08-05 18:08         ` Felipe Contreras
2013-08-05 17:47       ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-08-05 18:46   ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-08-05 18:54     ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-05 18:57       ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2013-08-05 19:06         ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-06 15:43   ` [PATCH 0/1] (Was: Linux 3.11-rc4) Oleg Nesterov
2013-08-06 15:43     ` [PATCH 1/1] Revert "ptrace: PTRACE_DETACH should do flush_ptrace_hw_breakpoint(child)" Oleg Nesterov
2013-08-07 12:05     ` [PATCH 0/1] (Was: Linux 3.11-rc4) Grazvydas Ignotas
2013-08-07 17:22       ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-08-07 19:26       ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-07 19:27         ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-08-07 19:47           ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-08 15:41             ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-08-08 16:25               ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-08 16:54               ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-08-08 18:15                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-08-09 16:45                   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-08-09 17:12                     ` Oleg Nesterov

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